17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Of course, what Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker, PhD, suggests is idiotic. As any free market economist would tell you, the way to stop a resource from being destroyed is not to pray that people won't buy it but to assure that someone has an ownership stake in the resource, thus assuring that their investment would be destroyed if the resource vanished.
Who is going to assure that someone has an ownership stake in the Humpback Whales? The World Government? Is that entity supposed to give the whales to some private whale-watcher's tourism enterprise? I don't get it. Who cares about a bunch of Norwegian (or Japaneese) fishermen? Asgaard